Church of Amanda But Elsewhere

Let us gather round the computer and read as I talk about work some more, k?

Good.

Basically, I’ve known for awhile now that coverage of Montgomery on al.com basically translated into “coverage of the churches” if you read it 3 times in the bathroom mirror with the lights out. True story. But, being that Montgomery is some weird vortex of … odd… I couldn’t grasp EXACTLY how to come at it.

I mean, what capital city basically has their church bulletin on the front page of its newspaper? Bingo. Thus, my problem.

Somehow, I need to do one or a ninja combo of the following things, and do so in a rockstar kind of way. You are following, surely:

• Bullet Points. Win.
• Deliver this week’s message in a readable and mildly entertaining fashion. Or at least not “shoot me” boring.
• Talk about upcoming and ongoing in-church events without also boring people’s faces off.
• Promote said items via FB and Twitter such that people *actually* click the links.
• Develop features based out of the church itself — this one might actually be relatively easy once I have my “in-church roots”.
• Rinse and repeat often.

Some of you may be reading this, not from Alabama, and wondering “wtcrap is she even TALKING about? church news?” and to you I say “dude. BELIEVE ME I KNOW”. And I’ve spoken about this before in a series of posts - Church of Amanda and Church of Amanda Issues Its First Newsletter.

You’ll be happy to know that I got past the fact that people here very often ask “where is your church home?” directly after “nice to meet you”. It becomes much less frequent as you stop leading with “I’m new to Montgomery”. Although, it does still happen (more often than you’d probably believe).

And now here I live in Not Only Be In Church BUT Cover Multiple Churches on an IN YOUR FACE Level. It’s been a weird year, guys. Weird. Year.